Much more work with the public records needs to be done for this family, though I have made a beginning.John Gay, the pioneer (abt 1715 - abt 1776) John Gay, the first of the Calfpasture, left very few records, like most of the pioneers of his generation. He was appointed a ...
Spelling continued to change and evolve until the beginning of the 20th century when it became fixed - in large part due to the standardization required by the Social Security Administration in the United States. So as you are looking for your surname history, you may consider researching ...
The Irish surname MacArtain became, in English, MacCartan, or sometimes Carton. This is an example of the error often found with Mac names beginning with a vowel, where the letter 'c' of Mac was carried forward to form the start of the name proper (i.e. – MacCann, MacCoy etc.)....
surname English Spanish Dictionary - surnamein Spanish: 1. Spanish word "surname"(el apellido) occurs in sets: Presentarse - Introductions Español - moje słówka
aDuring the second and the beginning of the third phase of surname evolution, surnames were unstable. With increased contact among clans, when people from one clan sought refuge with another clan or were conquered by other clans, they changed their clan names. With the division of society into...
His brother Henschel, who also changed his name, made his home in Southport, Lancashire as a tobacconist. He died soon after the birth of his son G.B. Samuelson (known as Bertie) in 1889. Despite this unpromising beginning, Bertie emerged as one of the pioneers of British cinema in the...
The Madog family of Llanfynach was to be found near Brecon on the river Usk, where they were local gentry.“The Madogs of Llanfynach near Maesmawr were of the line of Gwgan, second son of Moreiddig Warwyn. Moreiddig was said in legend to have been born with a snake about his ...
It has to be noted that these reconstructed frequencies are based on participants currently living in Northern France without notion about the places of residence of their paternal ancestors at the beginning of the archival records (Ramos-Luis et al., 2009) as it is the case for the AFS and...
In England it was a gradual process, beginning about 1000 ad—when it was stimulated by a paucity of first names—and lasting about six centuries. In some cultures the generalized use of surnames did not occur until the 20th century: in 1935 a Turkish law went into effect making surnames ...
"Sometimes before names beginning in Irish with S, this flattening of the c to g occurred, and here again the S sometimes disappeared in the English spelling, as in Magibney, Magivney (for Mag Shuibhne), Magovern, McGovern, Magauran (for Mag Shamhradhain). As if these were still to...